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OK, the $1M is taken... Maybe my Bible reference is good for some extra credit... but anyway, the words are essentially synonymous...
Resin
2 entries found.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Resin \Res"in\ (r?z"?n), n. [F. r['e]sine, L. resina; cf. Gr.
"rhti`nh Cf. {Rosin}.]
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable
substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of
electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in
ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water;
specif., pine resin (see {Rosin}).
Note: Resins exude from trees in combination with essential
oils, gums, etc., and in a liquid or semiliquid state.
They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and
are supposed to be formed by the oxidation of the
essential oils. Copal, mastic, quaiacum, and colophony
or pine resin, are some of them. When mixed with gum,
they form the gum resins, like asafetida and gamboge;
mixed with essential oils, they frorm balsams, or
oleoresins.
{Highgate resin} (Min.), a fossil resin resembling copal,
occuring in blue clay at Highgate, near London.
{Resin bush} (Bot.), a low composite shrub ({Euryops
speciosissimus}) of South Africa, having smooth pinnately
parted leaves and abounding in resin.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]
resin
n : any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances
obtained either as exudations from certain plants or
prepared by polymerization of simple molecules [syn: {rosin}]
Rosin
4 entries found.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Rosin \Ros"in\, n. [A variant of resin.]
The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the
volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
{Rosin oil}, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree,
-- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Rosin \Ros"in\, v. t.
To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Or with the rosined bow torment the string. --Gay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]
rosin
n : any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances
obtained either as exudations from certain plants or
prepared by polymerization of simple molecules [syn: {resin}]
v : rub rosin onto, as of violin bows
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]
Rosin
found only in Authorized Version, margin, Ezek. 27:17, Heb.
tsori, uniformly rendered elsewhere "balm" (q.v.), as here in
the text. The Vulgate has resinam, rendered "rosin" in the Douay
Version. As used, however, by Jerome, the Lat. resina denotes
some odoriferous gum or oil.
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